Thank you, Tall_Man!

One more question based on your answer...

The $month returns just the number of days in that month. If I'm using CGI.pm's popup_menu function, how do I get the 28 days returned because this is Febuary to have 1-28 days in the popup menu? I know I can then get todays date and have that as the default by using -default=>$day.

I just don't know how to go about putting the values and labels for the days of the month, unless I don't use CGI.pm and just do it this way:

$counter = 0;
$option_List = "";
while ($counter <= $month) {
$counter++;
$option_List .= qq~<option value="$counter">$counter</option>\n~;
}
$html_content .= qq~<select name="day" size="1">
$option_List
</select>
~;

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But then that would not work for what I'm doing, because I'm using CGI.pm's sticky behavior, so that when they change the date, it will be selected by default.


Any ideas on how to do it with just a max number(28)?
thx,
Richard

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Localtime by powerhouse
in thread How to get 3-letter month abbreviations ? by powerhouse

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